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opened, and on the summit of this are the remains of what appeared
to be a small fortitication of stone, said to have been one of Fingal's
strongholds.
Mains of Ardhoss.—In 1848, a large cairn, "Carn Fionntairneaoh,"
on the farm of Ardross, similar to the one at Millcraig,
was wholly removed. As well as the central cist, there were
several others in the body of the cairn, proving after burials. A
number of bones in good preservation were found, and a few flint
arrow heads.
On the same f;xrm there is an interesting grave preserved.
It is IG feet long and 4 feet broad, enclosed by six large flag stones
—two at each side, and one at each end. At the request of an
oflicer of the Royal Engineers in 187G, it was carefully opened by
digging a longtitudinal trench, when it w;xs discovei'ed that two
bodies were buried, the one at the foot of the other, in graves each
about 7 feet long, by 2 feet broad, and only about 2 feet deep from
the surface to the bottom. There are side walls about a foot high,
and a division of a foot between the two bodies. The bodies were
probably covered with flags, as disintegrated clayey slates were
turned out in digging. The only remams found were a few teeth
where the heads lay, and a thin layer of bituminous like matter,
the whole length of the graves. A few hundred yards to the west
of this grave thei-e existed about 200 small cairns, said to have
been raised over men who fell in a battle fought there long lor.g
ago, each being buried where he died. They have been all removed
in improving the land.
The cists without cairns discovered in the district are
numerous, notably those at Dalmore described by Mr Jolly in the
" Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland, 1878." A
group at the site of Achnacloich Castle, which contained jjottery,
a group north of Achnacloich loch, which have not been properly
searched, as the tenant of the farm protested against such sacrilege,
especially because the man who discovered them in trencliing the
moor immediat(;ly ran home, and kept to his bed for a couple of
months. At Baldoon, on an eminence north of the source of the
Achnacloich burn, are the remains of a cairn which, I think, lias
been a small stronghold. The name " Baile-'n-duin" suggests this.
The cairn was oval, 52 feet by 42 feet. Neai- the centre is an
elongated oval often standing .stones. It measiu-es IG feet long
by 8 feet broad, divided into two compartments of 8 feet each, by
two standing stones, having a space of two feet between them,
evidently a door. No living person saw or heard of this cairn
being other than it now is, so that what has been renio\ed of it